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GROUP

Yes, GROUP was the Wordle answer on November 10, 2021 (Wordle #144).

As an opener, it rules out about 90.7% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /ɡɹuːp//ɡɹup//ɡɹʉp/

Noun

A number of things or persons being in some relation to one another.

“there is a group of houses behind the hill; he left town to join a Communist group”

Noun

A set with an associative binary operation, under which there exists an identity element, and such that each element has an inverse.

Verb

To put together to form a group.

“group the dogs by hair colour”

Verb

To come together to form a group.

Alternative forms: groop, groupe

Source: Wiktionary contributors · CC BY-SA 4.0. Corrections.

Wordle status

A word can be a playable guess without being a possible answer.

Playable guess

Yes

Included in the Wordle guess list used by our tools.

Possible answer

Yes

Included among the answers considered by the solver.

Past Wordle answer

Used once

Past Wordle answer: November 10, 2021 (#144).

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The possible-answer list is the solver's current list and may change when Wordle adds new answers.

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How GROUP performs as a guess

GROUP is a possible answer, so it would solve about one game in 2,374 when every answer is treated as equally likely.

Played as an opener, it lands at least one colored tile in 75.4% of games, misses completely in 24.6%, and leaves about 222 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #3,578 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.65 guesses in games solved within six turns.

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Useful pattern pages

If you only know part of the word, start with one of these matching patterns.

G___P G in the 1st position and P in the 5th position G__U_ G in the 1st position and U in the 4th position _R__P R in the 2nd position and P in the 5th position

Explore lists that match the beginning, ending or letters in GROUP.

First-turn measures

All four describe GROUP used as an opening guess. Entropy is the same idea as “avg ruled out” on a log scale: a higher number means the guess splits the possible answers into more, smaller groups.

4.52 Entropy (bits)
222 Avg remaining
0.04% Exact match
90.7% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 53% of evaluated openers
1.43 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How GROUP performed in the previous complete opener benchmark, against its captured answer snapshot. These research figures are separate from today's solver recommendations. See the data page for the method.

3.65 Avg guesses
99.96% Solved within six
0.69 Spread of game lengths
#3,578 Rank among openers
Opening with GROUP left 1 of the snapshot's answers unsolved after six guesses. A spread of 0.69 means those games clustered within about 0.69 of a guess of the 3.65 average. It ranks #3,578 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
1
2 guesses
59
3 guesses
921
4 guesses
1,174
5 guesses
186
6 guesses
12
Top-ranked in the current bounded policy screen: SLANT. The policy minimizes misses within six first, then average guesses among wins (3.46 for the leader). Compare the ranking measures

Composition

5/5 unique
2 vowels
Common:
ORU

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
75%
Green tile
26%
All gray
25%

Example solver route

R O A T E
G R I N D
A L B U M
G R O U P

One example route used by the solver.

This solver benchmark reaches GROUP in 4 guesses.

Feedback distribution

GROUP can come back 98 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

585 answers
250 answers
173 answers
159 answers
116 answers
110 answers
107 answers
96 answers
78 answers
45 answers
37 answers
37 answers
32 answers
29 answers
25 answers
23 answers
23 answers
22 answers
22 answers
21 answers
20 answers
20 answers
19 answers
18 answers
17 answers
17 answers
17 answers
17 answers
14 answers
12 answers

Letter-value totals

Base letter-value totals for GROUP; these do not show whether either game accepts the word.

Scrabble

G2R1O1U1P3
Total: 8 points

Words With Friends

Total: 11 points

Scores shown are base values without double/triple letter or word bonuses.

Try next

SLATE SALET TONAL SLANT CADIE COATE

Strategy after playing GROUP

What the solver recommends next for each way the board can respond to GROUP.

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing GROUP:

25% chance
Suggested:
SLATE
11% chance
Suggested:
SALET
7% chance
Suggested:
TONAL

Follow-ups for common patterns

Ranked follow-up guesses for the 10 most common feedback patterns.

24.6% →
SLATE 6.36 bits
10.5% →
SALET 5.32 bits
7.3% →
TONAL 5.09 bits
6.7% →
SLANT 5.20 bits
4.9% →
SLATE 5.61 bits
4.6% →
CADIE 4.85 bits
4.5% →
COATE 4.33 bits
4.0% →
STALE 4.68 bits
3.3% →
LEANT 5.11 bits
1.9% →
CURRY 3.91 bits

Research on GROUP

Game-tree analysis and word research for GROUP, with an explanation for each figure.

Optimal play

Opening with GROUP, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.71 guesses and ranks #5,310 of 14,855 legal openers. The best proven opener, TARSE, averages 3.55.

In hard mode it averages 3.82 guesses at best and is rank #1,942 of the 7,453 openers that can still guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.65, at or below the proven-optimal 3.71, because the two figures score different answer lists.

These figures come from exhaustive game-tree search and are exact for the NYT lists of July 2023 (3,158 answers). They do not use the site's working answer pool.

How it sounds

One syllable Say it GROOP.

Rhymes with SCOOP TROOP SNOOP COUPE SWOOP

Related meanings

In WordNet's sense inventory, GROUP is a kind of abstraction or unit.

Synonyms radical grouping

Familiarity and learning

Frequency
GROUP sits in the common band of the wordfreq scale, appearing about 372 times per million words of written English; the band marks it as an everyday word almost every player will know.
Learner level
Appears in beginner learner vocabulary (CEFR-J level A1); among the first words English learners study.
Dominant sense
Lancaster raters associated it most strongly with sight (3.4 of 5).

In a sentence

Is he in this group?
© tatoeba.org contributor rul (CC BY 2.0 FR)
Which group are you in?
© tatoeba.org contributor CK (CC BY 2.0 FR)

Sources: Optimal-play values: Alex Selby's exhaustive Wordle analysis (MIT); Pronunciation: CMU Pronouncing Dictionary (BSD); Word relations: Open English WordNet, 2025 edition (CC BY 4.0); Word frequency: wordfreq (data CC BY-SA 4.0); Learner levels: CEFR-J Wordlist ver 1.5, Tono Laboratory, TUFS; Lancaster Sensorimotor Norms (CC BY 4.0).